wicker man had 5 nominations Golden Awards .
among which are worst screenplay,
worst picture.
worst actor and others.
i think that tells it all.

iice, watch it!
heard he's 1 of johnny's best friends.


my weekend was filled wit booze, booze and booze
not a single movie



av always had it in for jackie chan
he's a master as well as a legend.
Li was only a good sportman that cld trow a few kicks but jackie has a pack of tricks.
imagine, he double imaged as the villian in enter the dragon that was kicked into the glass maze.
happy they av reached an agreement at last.

Akin was just playing about the Golden globe awards. Just trying to emphasize the botched movie, Wicker Man. Now that I think about it, what kind of a name is that? A man that is a walking wicker, as in, a lantern? Whatever! About Nicholas, I never knew he had a fetish for comics. I guess that makes two of you or three of us, hehehe. What akin meant by messing with a friend of Johnny's beats me too. But Enter the Dragon was definitely Bruce Lee. I think I soiled myself when I saw some scenes in that movie from way back, early 90's I think. Saw another movie by his son, Brandon which wasn't bad but I guess we all know that he lost his life on set too. Tragic s**t. Thank God he didn't have a son going into movies or the trend might have carried on. enough on that note.

As you said, iice, Jet Li's a very good villain. His alter ego (the bad one I mean) in The One stole the show. Lethal Weapon, touche! And Jackie Chan, hmmmnnn, I've never in my life seen him play a villain, and even his good guy roles aren't 'don't give a s**t' types. They're always cute, loving and funny types trying to save the world and stuff. But nowadays fight scenes are going beyond highly rehearsed and orchestrated like we see in Jackie's films to what can be described as brute and brawny stuff like in, say, The Protector or Bourne Ultimatum! That's why I'm not too into Chinese martial arts films-the actors are too animated and gesture as if they have to use force and technique to do the most menial of things. When I saw Evil cult, I felt insulted, period. I like their regular movies though, without all the excessive fighting. As I can attest, they can be very passionate. If you've seen The Kidnapper or Naked Weapon minus all the ridiculous fight scenes both have very charming story lines.

Ha, Boondocks! I also happen to have about 15 episodes on my computer. Do you know how much they have rolled out, or are they in seasons too. I've never seen it on any network on TV. Never heard of it earlier, though I'm really far from home nowadays and thus away from cable TV. sigh! I definitely love the show and recommend. I don't know how you look, but I'd call you a 'cutey pie' nonetheless, lol.

Akin, BTW, I laughed out loud, when I saw your worst this and that lines. Folks at my office are learning to keep a safe distance from me as a result. Booze, huh? Partying over the Independence, are you? Hope your hang-over doesn't hang around too long. See ya

Whoa! There are some movies that fet ratings just because it's sooo bad. The types you take a clingy friend who doesn't understand that you need to be alone right now. I remember I bought this movie with Matt Damon and one other guy. They got lost in a desert and one of them ended up dead while the other made it to the road to be picked up by a good samaritan. The movie from beginning to end had only 5 actors. And I added the two people in the car who saved Matt's character who only appeared for a coupla minutes. I used to 'suddenly feel like watching this movie' whenever my younger brothers come to bother me, mostly just to see what I'm up to. As expected they soon find their room and their video games more appealing than whatever I'm doing. Problem solved! Imagine how many of that film would have been sold for this sole purpose! Wicker Man might be the next in line, huh?

What exactly is Kah-el or Jor-el supposed to mean? Or what is it supposed to be associated with?

Missiles, huh? I usually automatically edit texts as I'm reading, so they'd have to be really terrible mistakes before I get to notice them. One research found that it don't matter what order the letters of a word come in as long as the first and last are in place and there are no added or deleted letters, any sentence would be easy to read and make a lot of sense. Anyway, nice one, iice! hhmmmnn nice iice. nice iice likes ice cream and rice and guys but doesn't have lice or mice. Incoherent non-sense?

Oh yeah! That's what Kah-el (or Jor-el) means. Oh, it's been so long I saw anything pertaining to Superman. Though I can't really remember the guy's parents that much except when they sent him off their planet before it went KABOOM supernova like.

I used to play the demo version of Silent Hill on my brother's PS2 and it was scary as hell, and I don't scare easy. Sometimes I see myself in the game. I've not seen the movie yet, though. I'm not sure I'm up to it, lol.

Will add it to my list of 'must watch before I bite the dust'!

Welcome back iice!

Funny, I served in a village where the water was so hard that you could dissolve a packet of detergent and not get enough foam,

I'm a big Nicholas Cage fan when he's not looking like he's a wet puppy or half-dead so The Rock and Con Air pass. They are some of my favourite movies ever sef. He royally shot himself in the foot with the Wicker Man thing, it was a remake they'd tried to "Americanize" and they also made it too PC as in politically correct to be any use. Nic Cage as Superman? Thank God for that missed opportunity

I actually got a gift of a Boondocks dvd but I'm yet to get into it. Sounds like it could be a blast based on all the love you guys are showing it.

I never saw the Silent Hill movie but I hear its cinematograpy/atmosphere/art direction was off the hook. (Man I need to start hunting some of these movies I missed over the last three years)

I actually didn't know about Jackie and Jet's beef but as long as it's over that's really cool. I do believe Jet will win a Razzie long before Jackie sha///LOL

Is anybody excited about the Justice League movie that's being casted?

@vesc/iice did you ever play Resident Evil 4?

iice's on the money, Superman is Kal-El, his dad is Jor.

Heroes and House M.D. are back on air, yay!!!

Guess you've had your beauty sleep, iice.

Spikyn, I think you should be happy to have service over with rather than being nostalgic about it. Except of course if there were pretty amazon-like gurlz in that village you speak of.

I played Resident Evil 3 to some level and dropped it to play Soul Reaver. I thought it was too much killing and no adventure. I love games that are like quests or missions.

Akin, where you dey. AWOL or MIA or heaven forbid KIA (guess you can't answer then, can you?)

F&F4 is going make me choke if it should come out. It doesn't have enough material to be made again. At least name it something else. Torque, Biker Boys and F&F are essentially the same thing. I want a good story with good dialogue.

If Justice League is going to make it, which it definitely will, it will definitely be a major event like X-men or even greater. I just hope they manage to stay true to the comics or at least the cartoons. Just thinking out loud here; won't it be cool to try a series of Roswell Conspiracies with real actors this time. make it like X-Files.

I was just about to post all of the above when I was prompted that iice had posted again. 2 in 1 for y'all.

Don't know J. J. Abrams, but I guess he's something of a behind the scenes giant, from all iice says. Fringe really sounds good and maybe I'll retract my roswell conspiracies feasibiliity study, to replace it with this one. I just hope they don't put too many familiar faces in it.

I'll be checking up on Abrams since he's gonna do Star Trek. Will hate to see him botch it. Hulk? haven't seen that one either even the former one with Nick Nolte. I just seem to miss films and fear going back a generation when there are a whole catalogue of new ones to get engrossed in. Hope the special effects don't get too computer generated, if you know what I mean. I think my nose is going to get blocked tonight. Oh boy, flu calls. Darn AC!

Anyway, enjoy your weekend y'all and permit me to say you've earned it!

Phew, finally back from a veeery long weekend. Anybody miss me? Didn't watch any movies just a lot of sitcoms and Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes. Now I'm fully resumed and back in business. iice must feel dejected as Nairaland must be taking something of a break. Sorry iice. I know you have a life outside nairaland, lol. How are you? How's everybody? I feel refreshed though. I got to see my beloved brother. He's becoming imposing. I'm getting scared of the guy. He could kick my ass easily. Much more easily as there is no hierarchy in our house and therefore my dad or mum would not give a second look to me sobbing in a corner. I guess I'm ranting, that's because I have nothing to say until somebody jump starts me as Spikyn is so deft at with his thought provoking questions. I saw Prince of Tides, of which I have a book I've not yet read. Reading it now. So I guess I lied when I said I didn't see any movies. Hollaback girls and boys

Well, it's extremely nice to hear from you iice. I've been 4 feet under the weather myself, explaining the absence. I don't know why everybody just seemed to withdraw at approximately the same time. lemme see, iice despite being sick seems to have spent a good deal of her time under the sheets with the remote control conveniently snuggled up in her hands. And she hasn't even finished recounting all her reviews.

Lemme see which among her first list I have seen. hmmmmn, thank God she highlighted them!

Next, never heard of it, period

Blood and chocolate, your guess is as good as mine. I've not seen it or heard of it, but I'm a fan of foreign movies (at least foreign to Hollywood) but since I'm not at home I can't get to see exotic movies as I only buy or go to the cinema. God I miss good old fashion cable TV

1408, I read the book. And I saw so much of the previews that I'm wondering if I'm missing anything by not really seeing it. But I've always likes Cusack and Jackson and a collabo makes it all better

We are marshalls, I'm really getting tired of these theme based movies, seriously, how many different ways can it really be possible for you to twist the same story.

Stranger than fiction has always been a favorite of mine and I guess everybody. I'm not averse to seeing it again myself. Possibly Jim Carey's best role if you ask me.

28 weeks later? Is that supposed to be a sequel? To something like 'From today' hehehe. Never heard of that one either. My ratings have drastically dropped. I need help!

Disturbia, now I heard of that one. The film was good, but I want to dwell on Shia. I think he has a fruitful career ahead of him. Is he really going out with Rihanna?

I pronounce you Chuck and Larry isn't a movie you wanna watch when you're trying to prove some form of bravado. Even Tuvok in (Star Trek: Voyager) will laugh out loud. That's more than enough encomium for any comedy

Daddy Day Camp, I heard about this one too, but I'm not in a hurry to see it. First because it does not move me. Second because I'm tired of Cuba seeming to always be happy to jump at roles that portray him as some kind of egoless black dude. Except of course, that's the idea in the first place like in the movie, Men of Honor

Well, I didn't really see any movie myself. I just saw Shrek the Third again and though it's rare for me to see a movie again so soon I enjoyed it. Asides from that, nada went down this week. Things'll change soon though, I got serious plans for my very terrible ratings

hiya,

I'm really dashing so this'll be really short. @iice/vesc: I'm really sorry to hear you've been under the weather for a bit even if it gave ample excuse to watch as many movies as you did

If I hear the line ", it's complicated, " in any movie/show again, I might just flip, I'll explain later.

Just popped in to say I love you guys,

OMO!!!, Scorsese no get part 2.He's movies are always mind-gripping.I'll take him over SS anyday anytime.

Aww men, Spikyn. Thanks. I've got a whole week's supply of warmth for my very big heart. Just breezing in myself, so this might be shorter. You know, it's complicated, lol. Just playin with ya man. S'up iice. @Klemente; oh shit!

Brokeback, huh? Heard some reviews on that and I'd like yours too. I've been hearing about a lot of scary movies recently but haven't got around to seeing any. To name a few; 30 days of night, Halloween, Vampire chronicles or something!

Spikyn still waiting on ya to explain what freaks you out with things being complicated!

I gotta admit I was struggling to figure out most of what you're talking about. I knew that Josh Hartnett was in 30 days of night, but I guess you were talking about Brokeback with the talk about Heath Ledger (I see the next Orlando Bloom in him, plus a to-die-for voice, at least for the ladies) and Anne Hathaway being heart-broken (thus brokeback), also I think it might be safe to assume that Ang Lee was the director too. Kate Winslet?

How you doing iice. It seems we're the last people standing on this thread. That's woeful! Nywayz I've not seen either The Dark is Rising or The Seeker, or even read any reviews on them.

I also hate when villains appear so insurmountable and then fall so easily. If not that I really loved the 'Pirates of the Carribean' installments I'd hated the fact that the crew of the flying dutchman who appeared like hell rejects in the 'Dead Man's Chest' later seemed like frail vampires at World's End.

Fantasy books reaching LOTR's standard? Oh, man, that's no mean feat, not by a long shot! Gross earnings for the three LOTR installments placed it fourth or third ever only bettered by Harry Potter's, Bond's, Star Wars' installments followed by Pirates of the Carribean. These earnings are in billions of american dollars. For you to rake in such money you gotta have spent a freaking hell of a lot.

Narnia, while being really fun to watch didn't have a budget anywhere near that of LOTR. I Am Legend promises to be above average and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the golden compass too.

Did you hear of Affleck directorial debut with gone baby, gone? I gotta admit I don't think he'll be that good but that's not being fair to him. Anyway Morgan Freeman and I think Jack Nicholson are in it along with Affleck's younger brother, Casey. Freeman has never been known to botch anybody's movie. We'll see. And, oh, he also seems to have written the story too. Affleck, that is.

I'm sure you might be thinking anybody else but Jessica Biel. Though I can't say I remember the gurl in Wolf Creek. Is that the series where some high school kids turn to wolfs at night or is it on full moons? Nywayz it's funny you should mention Flash cuz I loved that show as a kid but in retrospect I think I might hate it now.

Don't really like Ben myself, wait, that's not accurate, it's more like I don't think he's worth my appraisal. He's just too bland as you say, uptight and generally trying to do everything right without mistakes. I'd like a more all out actor ready to take risks with roles that can really push him, again as you say.

I'm not particularly thrilled to hear about the third of Underworld. First, because I generally don't like gurls that kick ass that much and cuz they pushing their luck. Like you I can't figure out what's up with all these endless sequels that totally live below expectations. Worse is that they usually don't plan ahead for any sequels and now try to build a story around the first fabric. Totally pisses me off. The Matrix, LOTR and Pirates of the Carribean are very good examples of planning for movies. They should take a cue. And all their sequels are better than their firsts.

Prequels? Just gave me an idea. They can try rewinding movies and giving us totally tight experience. Something like Lion King 1 1/2.

Arios!